Major Jackson is an American poet, professor and the author of four collections of poetry: Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010) and Hoops (2006), both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn (2002), winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle. He...
Shakespeare’s Plays, Refugees’ Stories
In her stunning new translation of The Odyssey—the first-ever English translation by a woman—renowned classics scholar Emily Wilson brings a fresh perspective to Homer’s masterpiece while still conveying the humanity and heroic power of the original Greek. Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the author of Mocked to Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles...
UCLA’s Department of English is excited to introduce a year-long series specifically designed for English and American Literature and Culture majors! Life Beyond English offers current students the chance to engage in discussions with recent department graduates from a variety of fields. Join us as our alumni share their lived experiences and answer your questions...
Keynote speaker: Elaine Showalter (Emeritus Professor of English, Princeton University)
2018-2019 Kanner Series
Please join us for a reading with author Zinzi Clemmons, co-founder of the literary journal Apogee and current Associate Editor at the Believer and a Contributing Editor to Literary Hub. Her debut novel, What We Lose (Viking 2017) was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Leonard...
When: Thursday, November 15, 2018 7:30pm Where: -- Tony Hoagland writes that Mary Ruefle combines “the spiritual desperation of Dickinson with the rhetorical virtuosity of Wallace Stevens” in a “poetry at once ornate and intense; linguistically marvelous, yes, but also as visceral as anything you are likely to encounter.” Ruefle has written across several genres (including...
Please join us at the Westwind Journal Fall Quarter Reading with award-winning visiting Professor Juliana Wang (author of Home Remedies) and student writers Taylor Leig and Evelyn Jean-Louis. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Make plans to drop by the English Reading Room on this Thursday, November 29th for light refreshments and readings by some of our very talented creative writing students.